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Al-Janubiyah (other)
Al-Janubiyah or Al Janobiyah (from Arabic الجنوبية, 'southern') and Al Janub ('south'), or variants may refer to: Places *Southern Governorate, Bahrain, or Al Janubiyah *South Governorate, Lebanon (Al Janūb Governorate) *Southern Provinces (Al-Aqalim al-Janubiyah) or "Moroccan Sahara", term used by Morocco for Western Sahara Other uses *Jānubi, Jānubi Yamani, Jānubi Soudani, etc. – rhythmic units in Arabic music *Wail al-Shehri (1973–2001) aka Abu Mossaeb al-Janubi, September 11, 2001 airplane hijacker See also *Al Gharbiyah (other) (western) * Ash Shamaliyah (other) (northern) *Ash Sharqiyah (other) (eastern) *Al Wusta (other) (central) *Southern (other) *Dhofar Governorate The Dhofar Governorate ( ar, مُحَافَظَة ظُفَار, Muḥāfaẓat Ẓufār) is the largest of the 11 Governorates in the Sultanate of Oman in terms of area. It lies in Southern Oman, on the eastern border with Yemen's Al Mahrah Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Governorate
The Southern Governorate () has the largest area of the four governorates of Bahrain, and the smallest population (91,450). It includes parts of Bahrain's old municipalities – Al Mintaqah al Gharbiyah, Ar Rifa' wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah, and Juzur Hawar (the Hawar Islands). It is the least populated of the regions on Bahrain. The Governor of the Southern Governorate is Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali Al-Khalifa (b. 1993), the grandson of former Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and the son of Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, the Deputy Prime Minister. Regions that are part of the governate *Riffa * Isa Town *Ma'ameer * Awali * Askar * Jaww * Al Dur *Zallaq *Hawar Islands *Khalifa City *Sakhir *Durrat Al Bahrain Durrat Al Bahrain () is the third largest artificial island in Bahrain after Northern City and Diyar Al Muharraq Islands. It lies south of the capital, Manama, on Bahrain Island. Description Durrat Al Bahrain islands include luxury villas w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Governorate
South Governorate ( ar, الجنوب; transliterated: al-Janub) is one of the governorates of Lebanon. South Lebanon has a population of 500,000 inhabitants and an area of 929.6 km2. The capital is Sidon. The lowest elevation is sea-level; the highest is 1,000 meters. The local population is religiously diverse and includes Shia and Sunni Muslims, Druze, Eastern Orthodox, Maronite, Protestant, and Greek Catholic Christians. Temperatures can drop to 4 °C during winter with much rain and snow on the higher ground. In the humid summer, temperatures can rise to 30 °C in the coastal areas. The governorate has several rivers: the Litani, Deir El Zahrani, Naqoura, Awali, Qasmiye, and Hasbani. The area is famous for its citrus and banana farms. Its main cities are Sidon, Tyre and Jezzine. Local attractions and events The area offers a great number of attractions, including pristine white sandy beaches south of Tyre, and the opportunity to snorkel or dive among s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Provinces
The Southern Provinces ( ar, الأقاليم الجنوبية, Al-Aqalim al-Janubiyah, french: Provinces du Sud) or Moroccan Sahara ( ar, الصحراء المغربية, Assahra al-Maghribiya, french: Sahara marocain) are the terms used by the Moroccan government for the disputed territory of Western Sahara. These two Moroccan terms explicitly include all of Western Sahara, which spans three of the country's 12 top-level administrative regions. A frequent use of the term "Southern Provinces" is found for example in Moroccan state television (such as weather forecasts, displayed maps on the news, and government statements). Background Western Sahara was previously a Spanish colony known as the Spanish Sahara. Towards the 1970s, Spain faced increasing pressure from Morocco to hand over the territory, culminating in the Green March, a mass demonstration coordinated by the Moroccan government that was launched on November 6, 1975. The Green March was organized to pressure Spain i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm In Arabic Music
Rhythms in Arabic music are rich and very diverse, as they cover a huge region and peoples from Northern Africa to Western Asia. Rhymes are mainly analysed by means of rhythmic units called ''awzan'' and ''iqa'at''. Wazn and Iqa' A rhythmic pattern or cycle in Arabic music is called a "wazn" ( ar, وزن; plural أوزان / ''awzān''), literally a "measure", also called ''darb'', ''mizan'' in Arabic language, also has other names like '' usul'' as is in Ottoman classical music) for example. A ''Wazn'' is performed on the goblet drum ( tarabuka), frame drum (riqq or tar), and kettle drums ( naqqarat). A ''wazn'' is only used in musical genres with a fixed rhythmic-temporal organization including recurring measures, motifs, and meter or pulse. It consists of two or more regularly recurring time segments, each time segment consisting of at least two beats (''naqarāt'', plural of ''naqrah''). There are approximately one hundred different cycles used in the repertoire of Arabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wail Al-Shehri
Wail Mohammed al-Shehri ( ar, وائل الشهري, ; also transliterated as Alshehri) (July 31, 1973 – September 11, 2001) was one of five terrorist hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, which was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001. Wail al-Shehri was an elementary school teacher from Khamis Mushait in the Asir region of Saudi Arabia. In early 2000, he traveled to Medina to seek treatment for mental problems. He and his younger brother Waleed traveled to Afghanistan in March 2000 and joined an Al-Qaeda training camp. The brothers were chosen, along with others from the same region of Saudi Arabia, to participate in the September 11 attacks. Once selected, al-Shehri returned to Saudi Arabia in October 2000 to obtain a clean passport, then returned to Afghanistan. In March 2001, he recorded his last will and testament on video. Al-Shehri arrived in the United States in early June 2001, staying in budget motels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Gharbiyah (other)
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Al Gharbiyah ( ar, ٱلْـغَـرْبِـيَّـة 'western'), or Gharb ( 'west'), or variants may refer to: * Al Gharbia, Abu Dhabi * Western Region, Bahrain * Għarb, Gozo, Malta * Gharbia Governorate, Egypt * Gharb Al-Andalus or Al-Gharb, former name of a region of modern-day Portugal and Spain 711–1249 * Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen, or Gharb, a former region of Morocco ** Gharb Basin * Gharbia, Algeria See also * Gharbi (other) * Al-Janubiyah (other) (southern) * Ash Shamaliyah (other) (northern) * Ash Sharqiyah (other) (eastern) * Al Wusta (other) (central) * Western (other) * Abu Ghraib, Iraq * Algarve, Portugal *Cape Trafalgar Cape Trafalgar (; es, Cabo Trafalgar ) is a headland in the Province of Cádiz in the southwest of Spain. The 1805 naval Battle of Trafalgar, in which the Royal Navy commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson decisively defeated Napoleon's combined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Shamaliyah (other)
Ash Shamaliyah (from Arabic الشمالية, 'northern') or Shamal ('north'), or variants, may refer to: Places * Northern state, Sudan, or Ash Shamaliyah * Northern Governorate, Bahrain, or Ash Shamaliyah ** Northern Region, Bahrain * North Governorate, Lebanon, or Ash Shamal * Al Shamal, a municipality in Qatar **Madinat ash Shamal * Shamal District, Afghanistan ** Shamal, Khost Province Arts and entertainment * ''Shamal'' (album), by Gong, 1976 * ''Shamal'', a music project by Enzo Rao * '' Shamall'', a music band * Shamal, a character in ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha'' People * Marina Shamal (born 1939), a Russian swimmer * Steve Shamal (born 1996), a French footballer * Shamal Bhatt, an 18th-century Gujarati narrative poet * Shamal George (born 1998), an English footballer Other uses * Shamal (wind), a wind in the Middle East * Maserati Shamal, a car * , a ship * Al Shamal Islamic Bank, Sudan * Al-Shamal SC, a Qatari sports club * Al-Shamali AC, a Sudanese footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Sharqiyah (other)
Al Sharqiyah, Ash Sharqiyah ( ar, الشرقية, from Arabic ) or its variants, meaning 'eastern' or loosely 'oriental', may refer to: Places *Ash Sharqiyah Region (Oman) **Ash Sharqiyah North Governorate ** Ash Sharqiyah South Governorate * Ash Sharqiyah Province, Saudi Arabia * Ash Sharqiyah, Abyan, Yemen * Ash Sharqiyah, Hadhramaut, Yemen * Ash Sharqiya Fort, in the harbor of Old Muscat, Oman *Sharqia Governorate, Egypt **El Sharkia SC, a sports club *Al-Ain Region, Abu Dhabi, formerly Ash-Sharqiyyah Region *Kassala (state), Sudan, called Ash Sharqiyah 1991–1994) *Sharqiya Sands, Oman See also * Al Gharbiyah (other) (western) * Ash Shamaliyah (other) (northern) * Al-Janubiyah (other) (southern) *Al Wusta (other) (central) *Eastern (other) *Sharq (other) * Axarquía, a comarca of Andalusia, Spain *Mashriq The Mashriq ( ar, ٱلْمَشْرِق), sometimes spelled Mashreq or Mashrek, is a term used by Arabs to refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Wusta (other)
Al Wusta (from Arabic الوسطى, 'central') may refer to: * Central Governorate, Bahrain ** Central Region, Bahrain * Al Wusta Governorate (Oman) * Wusta, a former district in Libya prior to 1995 See also * Al-Janubiyah (other) (southern) * Al Gharbiyah (other) (western) * Ash Shamaliyah (other) (northern) * Ash Sharqiyah (other) Al Sharqiyah, Ash Sharqiyah ( ar, الشرقية, from Arabic ) or its variants, meaning 'eastern' or loosely 'oriental', may refer to: Places *Ash Sharqiyah Region (Oman) **Ash Sharqiyah North Governorate ** Ash Sharqiyah South Governorate * As ... (eastern) * Markazi (other) (central) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern (other)
Southern may refer to: Businesses * China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China * Southern Airways, defunct US airline * Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US * Southern Airways Express, Memphis-based passenger air transportation company, serving eight cities in the US * Southern Company, US electricity corporation * Southern Music (now Peermusic), US record label * Southern Railway (other), various railways * Southern Records, independent British record label * Southern Studios, recording studio in London, England * Southern Television, defunct UK television company * Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway), brand used for some train services in Southern England Media * ''Southern Daily'' or ''Nanfang Daily'', the official Communist Party newspaper based in Guangdong, China * ''Southern Weekly'', a newspaper in Guangzhou, China * Heart Sussex, a radio station in Sussex, England, previously known as "Southern FM" * 88. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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